How Small is Israel?
May 12, 2012
Vital Statistics
Population of Israel
7,116,200
Israel size
8,000 sq miles
Note: Israel could fit into Florida 8 times
263 miles long – North to South
Width: between 9 and 71 miles wide (East to West)
Land
Available land useful for farming 15.45%
Rest is metropolitan areas, mountains and desert.
Population breakdown
Jews: 5,393,600 – 76%
Arab (Muslim, Druze): 1,413,500 – 20%
Others: 309,100 4%
Declaration of Independence: 14 May 1948
Official Languages: Hebrew and Arabic
Rivers: One – the Jordan River
World Populations
6.7 billion people
12.9 million Jews (0.2% of the world population)
1.48 billion Muslims (25% of the world population)
Education
Israeli workforce holding university degrees: 24%
– ranking Israel third in the industrialized world after the US and Netherlands.
Israeli workforce holding advanced degrees: 12%
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never realized that Israel was that small !
You would think that the world could forget about it and leave it in peace
Yes… and conveniently forget about the literal millions of displaced Palestinians along with that.
But of course, such speculation defeats the propaganda in this article.